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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Coracora in Peru


Earthquake location -15.0364S, -73.3756WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Coracora in Peru. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/06/15 / 2015-06-30 23:07:51 / June 30, 2015 @ 11:07 pm. Unique identifier: us20002xmw. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002xmw. Exact location of event, longitude -73.3756 West, latitude -15.0364 South, depth = 74.3 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:07:51 / 6:07 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 74.3 km (46 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from Puquio (c. 10 500 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Coracora (c. 7 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Tambo (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puquio, Tambo, Coracora (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km E of Coracora, Peru. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.3756° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -15.0364° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km E of Coracora, Peru Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-30 23:07:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-16 04:40:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 246 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.533 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20002xmw Id of event.
Event Code 20002xmw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002xmw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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